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Gratitude: Today, I'm grateful for...
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Aug 12 2:11pm | Replies (123)Comment receiving replies
@sueinmn, the bad cards will be boiled in salt water, melted, and buried. I'm not going through all this twice.
And I've ordered new SD/micro SD card readers as well. Fool me once...
For me, part of the problem is my pride. I used to make my living programming on PCs, back in the early 80s. I could do a lot of complex stuff, like hand-coding software interrupts to control external devices. (See Chapter Six of "Intelligent Instruction by Computer" for one example.) To be stymied by a simple operation was maddening.
Nowadays, I can barely manipulate a Micro SD card. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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To err is human but to really mess up takes a computer.
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You're talking to two old geeks here - we've built, upgraded, repaired, programmed...me since the 1960's, my spouse since about 1980.
But now, with tremors and old eyes, these teeny, tiny parts can almost defeat me.
And the "techies" these days usually only know how to "do a factory reset" - when this little old lady tells them she still opens devices to swap or repair parts, they almost faint.
One T-Mobile kid actually tried to tell me that when they do updates "they never have bugs" - and I laughed in his face.
When the software contractor told my daughter it's "impossible to auto-populate one field from another" in the schools' student management application and she tells them "my Mom says there's a switch you can set in your software to do it" they get very embarrassed.